The people starting a fire tried to use cardboard to ignite… Smores are believed to be the cause of four major brush fires on Long Island over the weekend. Skip to content ...

Brush fires erupt on Long Island's East End. Helicopters have dropped nearly 700 gallons of water since the first brush fire started at around 1 p.m. Saturday in Center Moriches.

A family trying to make s’mores at their Manorville home on Saturday morning accidentally caused the brush fire that burned ...

A brush fire started around 1 p.m. in Center Moriches on Saturday, and fires spread to East Moriches, Eastport and Westhampton. The Westhampton fire was the largest of the blazes, measuring 2 ...

A brush fire in East San Jose that sparked Tuesday and triggered evacuations into the evening was fully contained by late Wednesday morning.

All four fires thought to have been sparked by the backyard blaze — the Westhampton fire, and fires in Center Moriches, East Moriches and Eastport — are 100% contained, county officials said.

The fires in Center Moriches, East Moriches and Eastport have been extinguished, while the fire in Westhampton is 50% contained. The governor's state of emergency is for Suffolk County .

About 80 fire departments from across Long Island responded Saturday afternoon to massive brush fires out east, ... Ed Romaine said the fire, which started in Center Moriches and is making its ...

Strong weekend winds helped whip the embers across the east end to East Moriches, ... Smores are believed to be the cause of four major brush fires on Long Island over the weekend. Skip to content.